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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never voted on a PTA, but we would get requests for contributions each year, showing what the average per child expenditure was from parent fundraising. I happily paid the suggested donation, and more, as I know it was a fraction of what I had paid each WEEK for preschool.

[b]I don't generally agree with paying dues to vote, but then there ARE ballots to be printed, and counted, and someone has to pay for the website on which the internet votes are recorded...[/b][/quote]

Can't they run a fundraiser (bake sale) to pay for this?  I have no problem with contributing to the PA but asking me to pay to vote leaves a bad taste and makes me not want to have anything to do with them at all and that includes writing checks.[/quote]one view is that usually the PTA is voting on leadership, ie, people to oversee the budgeting out of the funds raised...if you haven't contributed any funds, why do you get to vote on the distribution of those funds :shock: ? Being on the PTA or not being on the PTA doesn't affect your ability to have your child in school, or to participate in helping the school...[/quote]

True.  So why not only have $100 per child to be a member of the PA instead of having everyone automatically become a PA member and creating a two tier system, those who can vote/pay and no vote/no pay.  With a paid membership you only have people who are interested in having a say on how money is spent.[/quote]

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